Skeptical author Robert Sheaffer believes the phenomenon at Skinwalker to be "almost certainly illusory", given that NIDsci found no proof after several years of monitoring, and that the previous owners of the property, who had lived there for 60 years, say that no supernatural events of any kind had happened there. The rest of America got its first real taste of the Navajo legend in 1996 when The Deseret News published an article titled “Frequent Fliers? Similar stories are associated with Inuit shamans, who were said to experience a “magical merging” between spirit animals and humans.

When it comes to Skinwalker Ranch, the man you want to talk to is a retired high school teacher named Joseph "Junior" Hicks.Kelsey says this very rig later exploded, according to the Deseret News, and the bosses told their men to hush up about it. It only got recognition when journalist George Knapp wrote several news reports for the Las Vegas Mercury in 1996, where he claimed to have witnessed strange events on the ranch. The legend advises that it’s best to avoid skinwalkers altogether, but if someone is unfortunate enough to encounter them, you must confront them with confidence and show no fear. Now, sure, this sounds like something you'd see in the Men in Black movies, but as Politico points out, "UFOs" aren't necessarily alien.

In the 2016 book " Upward, Not Sunwise," anthropologist Kimberly Jenkins Marshall discussed the way skinwalker accounts and beliefs factored into neo-pentecostal Navajo communities.The parents decided that their son should come into the cab before he got soaking wet from any rain that might fall. Some tribes describe skinwalkers as Navajo witches who have decided to use their powers for evil while others may see the act of shapeshifting as a tool. The Skinwalker legend, however, has never been understood, especially in the culture of the Navajo people.

The only indication of the beast’s presence was the penetrating yellow light of the unblinking eyes as they stared fixedly back into the light. There was even an early psychiatric condition dubbed “wendingo psychosis”, describing people of the Algonquain regions who were seized by cannibalistic compulsions. On the other hand, viewers should also note that the scientists on the show hold actual degrees and are quite brilliant in their respective fields, which further proves the docuseries’ authenticity. Skin-walker stories told among Navajo children may be complete life and death struggles that end in either skin-walker or Navajo killing the other, or partial encounter stories that end in a stalemate. Every science fiction blockbuster has the one character, usually an older guy, who's been keeping tabs on this wacky nonsense for a long time, and knows more than everybody else in the room.Thus, even though parts of the show might have been manipulated to draw the audience in and keep them interested, we can safely confirm that ‘The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch’ is a perfect example of a completely unscripted reality show. Some theories suggest that the concept of skinwalkers may have originated in ancient European folklore, where shape-shifters were often depicted as witches or other supernatural creatures.